Article-I.D.: well.2075
Posted: Thu Nov 20 10:47:19 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 20-Nov-86 23:09:54 EST
Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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Well, here is a question for George Robbins or someone involved in the legal
end of C/A.  I have gotten alot of letters back since my message about the 
resident command asking for a copy.  Now, ummm, Lots of developers have
the software toolkit disk, and several dealers have it in there
public domain disk sections.  But if I wanted to take a demonstration 
disk to my users group that showed the command, would I be tromping
someones copyrights?

Thanks for the info
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Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1022
Posted: Thu Nov 20 22:45:55 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Nov-86 02:49:22 EST
References: <2075@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: andy@skipper.UUCP (andy finkel)
Organization: Commodore Business Machines, 1200 Wilson Drive, West Chester, PA 19380
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In article <2075@well.UUCP> spencer@well.UUCP (Randal Spencer) writes:
 toolkit disk, and several dealers have it in there
 > public domain disk sections.  But if I wanted to take a demonstration 
 > disk to my users group that showed the command, would I be tromping
 > someones copyrights?
 > 
If you only showed it, and didn't give it away, or allow copies to
be made, then there is no copyright violation, right ?
If it is copied, however, you better believe it!  All of Workbench, Kickstart,
etc. is copyrighted.  We provide software to developers sometimes
that should not be distributed any further.  Especially when there is
debate over the design of the command (as in this case).

Programs we give to developers do not enter the public domain automatically.
And dealers should not be giving it away as public domain.
And in general, I think our developers are a good lot, who are willing
to abide by the restrictions imposed to get advance copies of the software,
as well as pre-release versions of utilities.

			andy (possibly living in a dreamworld) finkel
			Commodore/Amiga
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